Solar-Powered Jacket

We've talked about the endless opportunities to harvest and save energy before (and before that). Here's yet another example from the world of high fashion: a jacket that has two solar panels in the collar that can charge a USB device.





It's made by Ermenegildo Zegna so it probably costs more than a lifetime's supply of batteries, but it's still pretty damn cool.





The New Yorker writer who tested it marvels:





"I wondered what other appliances my jacket might be able to power. A visit to the Web site usbgeek.com brought into my life a small flurry of gadgets equipped with USB ports...it is the eight-inch-tall refrigerator (thirty dollars) – it chills one can of soda – that most impresses me: I’m using the sun to chill the liquid that slakes the thirst that’s created by the sun."


Very literary.





Via Inhabitat.